Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...faded out of sport. The items told about Jim Thorpe, the Indian. One described how, after having failed, miserably, to get into condition, he was dropped by the New York Club with which he had been playing professional football. The second stated that he had married for solace a West Virginian named Freeda Kirkpatrick, had started west for his honeymoon...
Even though it invited negroes and Jews to join it, the Ku Klux Klan has just received a severe setback in two major attempts to gain political control of great population centers outside its main field of influence in the middle west and south. A week ago, Klan leaders, in their pre-election prophecies, were exultantly claiming Detroit and Buffalo as their own. Now press dispatches indicate that the anti-Klan candidates have been elected in both cities, although in each case the margin of victory was slim enough to show that the Klan's power over the more hysterical...
...inter-dormitory chairmanship went to Brouson Griscom of Syosset, N. Y., a graduate of St. Paul's John De Laitre of Minneapolis, Minn., William Tappen King of Milton, and John Whiton Hutchinson of West Newton were appointed managers of Gore, Smith, and Standish, respectively. De Laitre, King, and Hutchinson all entered the University from Milton...
...inspired his biographer: "The poetry of the looming hills was gone, but in its stead there came a wider outlook across the wide plains of Illinois," writes Mr. Braden, smiling mistily through the tears that have been wrung from him by the narration of how the Grange family moved west...
Common Chalice. The House of Bishops took up the use of tha common chalice in the administration of the Communion. Objections to it, on sanitary grounds, have been made in five dioceses, and in the diocese of West Virginia it has been forbidden by law and the Bishop threatened with arrest if it continued.' The bishops declined to drop the practice, although several bishops have permitted their clergymen to dip the bread in the chalice of wine and give it to communicants to avoid the cup's passing from...